Welcome to SILC

The Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC) is a Science of Learning Center funded by NSF to bring together scientists and educators to understand spatial learning and to use this knowledge to develop programs and technologies that will transform educational practice, especially in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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Researchers at the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC) are gathering a corpus of sketches using CogSketch. CogSketch is the sketch understanding software that we are creating, which is available for free from our web site. It has two purposes. First, we are using it to explore how people reason and

Special Features

Enjoy the archives of our monthly highlights of SILC research. See the Showcase pages now.

Read about SILC research and researchers in the press.

The SILC Tests & Instruments page contains files of tests and surveys that have been developed by SILC researchers. These are available for you to use in your research.

Find out how to use spatial learning in your classroom or at home, by reading these articles for educators, policy makers and parents.

News Notes

March 10, 2018

Our Conferences and More page has been up-dated with the Call for Papers and Participation for Topology, geometry, and function Workshop / Seminar on topology and geometry of information visualization, June 1 and 2, 2018, Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems, Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

Our Jobpage has been up-dated with a PhD position, Aging & Cognition Research Group, The German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE).

March 8, 2018

Our Conferences and More page has been up-dated with information on Spatial Cognition 2018 Symposium, Tutorial, and Workshops, September 5, 2018, Tuebingen, German.

Our Conferences and More page has been up-dated with an extended abstract submission deadline of February 25th for the 16th European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition (EWIC 2018), June 7-9, 2018, Padua, Italy.

January 18, 2018

Our Conferences and More page has been up-dated with the Abstract Submission Deadline (January 28th) for the 7th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ICSC 2018), September 10-14, 2018, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome.

January 11, 2018

Our Jobpage has been up-dated with a Research Fellow position in Robotics and Machine Learning, University of Leeds (United Kingdom).

Our Conferences and More page has been up-dated with a Call for Participation: 3rd Biennial Science of Learning Symposium: Minding the Gaps Among Levels of Explanation, Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus, January 22, 2018.

November 2, 2017

Our Conferences and More page has been up-dated with a Call for Papers for the Special Issue on Problem-solving, Creativity and Spatial Reasoning in Cognitive Systems (ProSocrates) at Cognitive Systems Research, Elsevier (Deadline November 15th).